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“It was too hard, too messy, too complicated. I sort of lived in a self-imposed exile for a good many years. I went away to college, lived my own life, chased my dreams, tried to face some demons. I guess I thought I could do all those things on my won. I thought that because I was gay, my family, well, they'd hate me or they wouldn't understand me or they'd send me away. So I just sent myself away. It was easier for me to pretend that I didn't belong to a family. I tried to pretend I didn't belong to anyone.”
― The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
― The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
“People can be cruel. People can hate what they don't understand."
"But, Dad, they don't want to understand."
"Maybe they don't. But we have to find a way to discipline our hearts so that their cruelty doesn't turn us into hurt animals. We're better than that. Haven't you ever heard the word civilized?”
― The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
"But, Dad, they don't want to understand."
"Maybe they don't. But we have to find a way to discipline our hearts so that their cruelty doesn't turn us into hurt animals. We're better than that. Haven't you ever heard the word civilized?”
― The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“I was trying to explain to myself why I was so happy. I hadn't ever felt this happy. I finally understood something about life and its inexplicable logic. I'd wanted to be certain of everything, and life was never going to give me any certitude. I thought of Fito, who always lived in hope when life had offered him no hope. Certitude was a luxury he had never been able to afford. All he'd ever had was a heart incapable of despair.”
― The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
― The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
“I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about -- the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of the box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire; it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water. And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
Stephanie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Stephanie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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166 books
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964 books
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100 books
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280 books
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108 books
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